Labour's funding position is not as bad as commonly supposed - debt is zero (used to be £millions), and the flood of legal cases during the squabbles in 2019+ has largely dried up. Unite has bee… (View Post)

One hospital pass that is mooted is allowing local councils to raise council tax as much as they like without a referendum. Coupled with central cuts in public spending, I'm not sure I've e… (View Post)

The logic of some of yesterday's posts is that NATO should now declare war on Ukraine. Essentially it was always clearly an accident that didn't justify escalation by anyone, and the fact t… (View Post)

I've also lived in two countries with ID cards (Switzerland and Denmark) and they are AFAIK entirely uncontroversial there. The British system of producing bank statements and utility bills is j… (View Post)

Sober discussion of events plus humour and gentle teasing are all parts of PB that we should value. Where it becomes tiresome is when posters start to stick labels on each other - X is a Putinist, Y … (View Post)